Apparatus for use in printing textiles



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Filed Oct. 9, 1940 Patented Nov. 4, 1941 UNITED APPARATUS FOR USE IN PRINTING TEXTILES Edward Endelson, Belchertown, Mass.

Application October 9, 1940, Serial No. 360,464

2 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in textile printing machines and is directed more particularly to the provision of a novel method whereby theprinting of textiles is greatly facilitated and a new apparatus to help out in the carrying out of this method.

It is one of the principal objects of the invention to provide means whereby the web or strip of textile may be more efficiently supported for the printing operation than heretofore. That is to say, according to this invention, the web or strip of cloth to be operated upon may be spread out on what is generally referred to as a supporting table more easily and with better satisfaction than has been hitherto .possible.

As special features of the invention, the Web or strip may be laid out in a more fiat condition than heretofore, that is without wrinkles, which for obvious reasons, is desirable since the cloth is to be acted upon by a printing device with the intention of printing some sort of a design or pattern on the web which is uniform throughout the length of the strip.

It is the usual practice in the textile-printing trade to employ a number of workers to spread the strip out on a table-supported pad and to secure it thereto by sticking ordinary common pins through the strip closely adjacent its opposite marginal edges, and into the table which usually has a pad or cushion on its upper surface. This obviously not only requires a great deal of time and labor but the mere pinning in this way of the strip or web to the table cannot result in the same being laid out or stretched in a wrinkleless fashion whereby it cannot be printed upon with efficiency or satisfaction. 6

According to this invention, as will be described, the web or strip may be rolled up and then unwound from a point adjacent one end of the table in such a way that it eventually lays longitudinally of the whole table from end to end and the same is temporarily attached in place so as to lie absolutely flat so as to permit its being worked upon as desired. As will appear also, the attaching is done with less effort and in much shorter time than is now the practice.

With the foregoing and various other novel features and advantages and other objects of my invention as will become more apparent as the description proceeds, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more particularly pointed out in the claims hereunto annexed and more fully described and referred to in connection with the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a top plan view of an apparatus embodying the features of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a partial side elevational view of what is shown in Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.v

Referring now to the drawing more in detail, wherein similar reference figures refer to like parts, and referring more particularly to the preferred form of my invention which has been selected for illustrative purposes, I have shown a supporting table indicated generally by 2, and this may obviously vary in construction. In the usual textile plant, this member 2 is about ninety yards long and approximately a yard and onehalf wide.

Preferably the table 2 carries a pad or cushion 4 which may be formed of various materials but usually consists of some resilient layer or layers of fabric. There is a vertical side wall 6 extending upwardly from one longitudinal side edge portion of the support or table.

A carriage-like member which is indicated generally by the numeral 20 is provided and this may vary widely in form although it is preferably frame-like in character. It may include side rails 22 and 24 connected by transversely-extending members 26 and such are usually formed of iron or some other suitably rigid material.

Extending upwardly from the member 20 are spaced uprights 30 and these have extending between their upper sides a roll 32, the opposite ends of said roll being journalled in the uprights for rotation. Preferably there are also one or more roll-like guide members 34 extending between the uprights in spaced relation and below the supporting roll, substantially as shown.

The said member 32 is for carrying a bolt or roll of some textile or similar web material indicated by W. As will be shown, the web is guided, and also tensioned, by the members 34 and there may, if desired, be somewhat of an auxiliary tensioning device to put more or less of a drag on the rotation of the roll. The latter may consist of a belt such as 36 having one end attached to a member 30 and its other end carrying a weight 38.

What is commonly known as an expander is shown at 40 and this has a shaft rotatable in the upper ends of oppositely-disposed brackets 42 which may be carried by the support or carriage 20. This may or may not be employed but serves to tension the strip or web W and contributes to the whole function or purpose of spreading the web out in a wrinkle-less manner.

A pressure roll 50 has its periphery in engagement with the table, that is with the web thereon, as shown, and this may have the opposite ends of its shaft journalled for rotation in the side rails 24. Forwardly of roll is an adhesiveapplying roll 52 which also may have the ends of its shaft journalled for rotation in side members 24.

A doctor member 54 is preferably provided for controlling the flow of the adhesive which, as will be understood, is more or less fluid and there may be side pieces such as 55 for preventing the adhesive from flowing out from the trough formed by the doctor and roll. If desired the doctor 54 may be tensioned by such means as levers 56 carried by opposite ends of its shaft and turnbuckles 58 which extend between the outer ends of the levers and the carriage 20.

In operation, the free or outer end of the web W on roll 32 is attached by any suitable means to one end of the table. The arrangement is such that the web extends from its free end under roll 50 so as to be capable of being pressed down thereby, over expander 40, if such is pro vided, in and around guide rolls 34, to its supplying core, the carriage and accompanying. parts being moved forwardly towards the other end of the table and the bolt of cloth of course being gradually unwound.

The roll 52 applies an adhesive to the table, or to whatever the covering thereon may be and the roll 50 presses the unwinding web thereonto.

The carriage may be manually or otherwise moved along the table but, as will be clear, such movement will in any event result in the webs being temporarily attached to the table for the subsequent printing operation, which is usually performed in the conventional way with the use of a screen or screens.

The carriage may be guided along the table in various ways. For purposes of description I have shown a part 64 which is carried by the carriage and this has a hub 62 carrying a roller 60 on its lower end. Pivoted at 68 to the part 64 is an arm member 66 which also has a hub 62 having a roller 60 on its lower end.

A spring 69 preferably acts on lever 66. The rollers ride at opposite sides of the angle iron so as to guide the carriage in its movements along the carriage.

The invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the essential characteristics thereof. Hence, the present embodiments are therefore to be considered in all respects merely as being illustrative and not as What it is desired to claim and secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. The combination with a table having an upper surface provided with a covering for supporting a web of fabric for a printing operation or the like with means for laying a web of fabric thereon comprising, a guide wall along one longitudinal marginal edge of said table, a carriage including a framework, forward adhesive and rear pressure rolls journalled in said framework rotatably supporting the same, guide means associated with said framework operably engaging said guide wall for guiding said carriage in forward web applying movements relative to said table and return, means for applying adhesive to said adhesive roll whereby said roll applies adhesive to said covering as said carriage is moved along said table, and means associated with said framework for supporting a roll of fabric and guiding a web therefrom and around said press roll whereby as the carriage moves in one direction along said table said web is laid onto said covering and pressed against adhesive applied thereto by said press roll, said means for applying adhesive to said adhesive roll including a doctor pivotally mounted on said framework having its forward end engageable with a side of said adhesive roll therealong and side wall members adjacent opposite ends of said roll co-operating with said doctor and providing therewith a receptacle for adhesive at a side of said roll.

2. The combination with a table having an upper surface provided with a covering for supporting a web of fabric for a printing operation or the like with means for laying a web of fabric thereon comprising, a guide wall along one longitudinal marginal edge of said table, a carriage including a framework, forward adhesive and rear pressure rolls journalled in said framework rotatably supporting the same, guide means associated with said framework operably engaging said guide wall for guiding said carriage in forward web applying movements relative to said table and return, means for applying adhesive to said adhesive roll whereby said roll applies adhesive to said covering as said carriage is moved along said table, and means associated with said framework for supporting a roll of fabric and guiding a webtherefrom and around said press roll whereby as the carriage moves in one direction along said table said web is laid onto said covering and pressed against adhesive applied thereto by said press roll, said means for applying adhesive to said adhesive roll including a doctor pivotally mounted on said framework having its forward end engageable with a side of said adhesive roll therealongvand side wall members adjacent opposite ends of said roll co-operating with said doctor and providing therewith a re-- ceptacle for adhesive at a side of said roll, and means for swinging said doctor to adjust its forward edge relative to said roll.

EDWARD ENDELSON. 

